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Virologist Streeck warns of vaccine euphoria - and sharply criticizes Söder: "Talking past reality"

2020-12-03T03:24:07.877Z


In an interview with the Rotary Club Schliersee, virologist Hendrik Streeck warned against too much euphoria about the corona vaccine. He also expressed criticism of Söder's statements.


In an interview with the Rotary Club Schliersee, virologist Hendrik Streeck warned against too much euphoria about the corona vaccine.

He also expressed criticism of Söder's statements.

  • Virologist Hendrik Streeck warns that the duration of protection and effectiveness of the corona vaccine could fall short of the expectations of many.

  • Streeck also criticizes the distribution concept.

    Vaccination centers alone could not administer this across the board.

    It needs the family doctors.

  • Streeck condemns number games of politics to mortality.

    If you look at the numbers, it is "not the enormous catastrophe that it is being portrayed as".

Schliersee

-

There

is great

hope

that

a

corona vaccine will

soon be

available

.

But the

virologist Hendrik Streeck

warns of too much euphoria.

"At the moment we still know very little about the vaccine," said the director of the Institute for Virology and HIV Research at the Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn at a video conference of the

Rotary Club Schliersee.

"The worst situation would be that the vaccine is only effective for six months and we will have the same problem in autumn next year as we have today."

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Corona vaccination shortly before approval: Streeck sees problems - incomprehension about Söder's statement

Over 80 members and guests followed Streeck's lecture online on Monday evening.

He was quickly confronted with a whole series of questions in the chat, but was only able to answer a fraction of the time.

The focus of interest: the early

approval of a vaccine

.

Here the 43-year-old dampened expectations of a quick end to the current state of emergency.

"Even if you want to, you will not be able to vaccinate people so quickly," emphasized the virologist, who also described a

willingness to vaccinate

in the population of 50 percent as "very high".

Many questions are still unanswered - for example, whether the vaccine from the

US pharmaceutical company Moderna

protects against infection or only against a severe course.

“We also don't know how long vaccination protection lasts,” Streeck reported.

"We can only

draw conclusions

about the

effectiveness of

the vaccine

from the natural

immunity

- and there are now cases of re-

infections

in Germany too

."

Virologist Streeck warns of vaccine euphoria: increase army for corona protection?

The professor predicted problems with administering the vaccine.

"It will

not be possible to solve

this with

vaccination centers,

" said the virologist.

Logistical questions are still open.

"It won't work without the family doctors - or we have to add to the army." Leonhard Stark, who won Streeck for the online lecture, shared the

skepticism.

"At first there was talk of a hundred people to be vaccinated per day in the test centers in the districts, now we are talking about 300 people," reported the state manager of the Bavarian Red Cross.

The reason is that the

corona vaccine from

the Mainz company

Biontec is delivered

in containers of 975

vaccination

doses

and can only be kept for three days.

"I can't imagine how that should work if you want to talk to each subject for five minutes."

Finally there was a

swipe at politics.

Schliersee's Rotary President Linda Gebser wanted to know what chance virologists have to assert themselves with their advice against prime ministers who are addicted to profile.

"I don't think the decisions are made on a

virologist basis

," Streeck said curtly.

In conversation with the Rotary Club Schliersee: Streeck with Söder criticism - "Talking past reality"

Previously, the 43-year-old had also

commented

on

mortality

from the

corona

virus and

condemned

political numbers games

.

On average, according to Streeck, around 2,600 people die every day in Germany.

Usually flu or other infections led to a seasonally increased mortality.

Due to the current precautions and restrictions, the value is currently below the average mortality of the past five years.

"When Mr

Söder

says that the death toll is currently so high that it would be as if an airplane crashed every day, then he is

ignoring reality,"

Streeck clarified.

Every single death is tragic and one cannot simply ignore it.

"But if you look at the

numbers,

" says the virologist, "then it is not the enormous

catastrophe

that it is currently being portrayed as."

Source: merkur

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